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United States Patent | 5,260,004 |
Samuelson ,   et al. | November 9, 1993 |
Langmuir-Blodgett films having photo-electronic properties and methods of making the same. The instant films may be made, for example, by spreading a mixture of one or more types of biotinylated lipids and one or more types of electrically-conductive lipids over a water-miscible liquid subphase. Conjugated molecules comprising a biotin-binding component made up of an avidin or streptavidin molecule or a fragment or derivative thereof having biotin-binding activity and a photodynamic proteinaceous component are then injected into the subphase. Because of the affinity between biotin and the biotin-binding component, the conjugated molecules bind to the biotinylated lipids. The air-subphase interface is then compressed, causing the biotinylated lipids and electrically-conductive lipids to form a monolayer thereat. In one embodiment, the biotin-binding component has biotin-binding sites available on its underside which may be used to bind biotinylated derivatives of one or more different species of photodynamic proteinaceous components and/or to build up a multilayered complex of biotin-binding molecules and functional proteinaceous components using biotinylated rigid or flexible couplers.
Inventors: | Samuelson; Lynne A. (West Newton, MA); Kaplan; David L. (Stow, MA); Marx; Kenneth A. (Francestown, NH); Tripathy; Sukant K. (Acton, MA); Kumar; Jayant (Lowell, MA) |
Assignee: | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, DC); University of Massachusetts Lowell (Lowell, MA) |
Appl. No.: | 802675 |
Filed: | December 2, 1991 |
Current U.S. Class: | 264/104; 264/236; 264/298; 427/74; 427/508; 427/521 |
Intern'l Class: | B29C 041/02; B29C 071/02; B29C 071/04 |
Field of Search: | 264/22,104,236,298 427/74,508,521 |
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